Category Archives: Wastelands

Edifício Concórdia

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Foi concluída a reforma do prédio na Avenida Ipiranga n° 1.248. O prédio dos anos 50 havia sido invadido duas vezes e estava vazio havia um bom tempo. O edifício de escritórios foi transformado em moradias. Faz parte de uma onda de obras na região que aos poucos vêm revitalizando o centro da cidade. É uma resposta da iniciativa privada à alta demanda de moradia de custo acessível no centro e à situação de abandono.

A reforma buscou resgatar a arquitetura original da época e equipar o edifício com nova infraestrutura, caixilhos e áreas molhadas para seus novos moradores. As 226 unidades de entre 30 e 50 m2 já foram todas vendidas e o empreendedor segue com mais trabalhos na mesma região.

Arquitetura: Pierre e Marina Mermelstein, Merten Nefs
Obra: Arco- arquitetura planejamento e construção ltda.
Área bruta: 9.242 m2
Pavimentos: 20, incluindo a entrada no térreo e salão de festas no 19°
Conclusão da obra: 2008

Veja também a reportagem no website do CentroNovo:
http://centronovo.com.br/index.php?secao=reportagens&cd_noticia=1201

BR-3

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The margins of the Tietê river are probably among the darkest and most deserted spaces of São Paulo. Trapped between 16 lanes of the Marginal expressway and a the highly polluted water, and mostly shaped as a cast concrete gutter, the Tietê riverbanks are no place to stay. Exept for a few months in the year 2006.

The BR-3 play by Teatro da Vertigem, directed by Antônio Araújo, temporarily shed light on this transitorial space. Most of the audiênce saw the flyeovers from below and the Tietê water at short distance for the first time in their lives, and perhaps also for the last time. Just for a moment the river became a scenery through which the spectators moved continuously on a boat. The actors also moved from one embankment to another, to floating scenery rafts and around the audience in small boats and canoes.

After São Paulo, the play was performed for some time at Guanabara bay, Rio de Janeiro.

Read More:

Teatro da Vertigem
www.teatrodavertigem.com.br

Teatro da Vertigem and other temporary interventions in São Paulo, at the Venice Bienale.
Article at Vitruvius (english and portuguese)
www.vitruvius.com.br/arquitextos/arq077/arq077_02.asp

Praça Roosevelt – cleaning up

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Since the end of last year the square with its concrete structures is awaiting demolition. As the demolition job is still stuck in legal and political processes, the secretary responsible for the area was obliged to open the space again to the public and clean the place up, until further decisions are made. After the elections in the end of this month we´ll probably see a next chapter in the short yet turbulent life of Praça Roosevelt. The removal of the walls revealed the spatial qualities of the original design. Nevertheless it is almost certain that the brutalist concrete structure will be demolished to make place for a new uncovered terraced layout, but who knows…

Photographic survey on October 21 2008

Cheong Gye Cheon river restoration

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Documentary about the Cheong Gye Cheon river restoration project in the centre of Seoul, South Korea.
The river regained its symbolic value and leisure function in Seoul´s daily life. A 380 billion Won revitalization project took over two years to demolish the concrete expressway that covered the polluted stream from the 1970´s and to depollute the water along the 5.8 km tract.

Duration 20 minutes.

Cheong Gye spring

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